item: #1 of 10 id: 10383 author: Bull, Thomas title: The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease date: None words: 57199 flesch: 59 summary: In such a child, too, it will be found that the ordinary diseases of infancy, scarlet fever, measles, small pox, etc., will be attended with an unusual degree of constitutional disturbance; that it will not bear such active treatment as other children, or so quickly rally from the illness. A great error in the dietetic management of such children is but too frequently committed by parents. keywords: air; bath; body; bowels; breast; case; child; children; cold; diet; disease; fever; food; head; health; infant; management; milk; mother; nurse; parent; period; quantity; skin; small; symptoms; teeth; time; water cache: 10383.txt plain text: 10383.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 14515 author: Cameron, Hector Charles title: The Nervous Child date: None words: 51981 flesch: 59 summary: In nervous children these movements, which should properly be confined to moments of real emotional stress, become habitual, and are displayed apart from the excitement of particular emotions. These actions are not confined to nervous children, and their occasional practice need not be taken to imply that there is any strong element of nervous overstrain. keywords: attention; bed; body; cause; child; childhood; children; conduct; control; crying; day; development; environment; food; force; good; habit; life; management; mind; mother; nurse; parents; place; power; refusal; relation; school; self; sense; sleep; suggestion; symptoms; time; treatment; unrest; vomiting; way cache: 14515.txt plain text: 14515.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 15484 author: Holt, L. Emmett (Luther Emmett) title: The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses date: None words: 33302 flesch: 82 summary: How should milk be handled in the home when obtained fresh from the cows?_ That to be used for infants should be strained through a thick layer of absorbent cotton or several thicknesses of cheese-cloth into quart glass jars or milk bottles which should be covered and cooled immediately best by placing the bottles quite up to their necks in ice water or cold spring water, where they should stand for at least half an hour. Afterward, one feeding a day of a weak formula of modified milk (e.g., No. III or IV of the Second Series, page 71) may be given; later two feedings, and thus gradually the number of milk feedings is increased until the child is taking only modified milk. keywords: bottle; cent milk; child; children; day; fat; feeding; food; half; infant; milk; milk sugar; months; ounces; sugar; symptoms; time; use; water; weight; year cache: 15484.txt plain text: 15484.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 18559 author: Hutchinson, Woods title: The Child's Day date: None words: 41632 flesch: 88 summary: So you must eat good food, sleep ten or twelve hours a day, and play out of doors a great deal, if you expect your skin to be healthy. Perhaps we shall some day; for doctors are finding out that fresh outdoor air and good food are the very best medicines known, and the only Sure Cures. keywords: air; blood; body; children; course; day; eyes; feel; food; germs; good; help; illustration; light; muscles; need; people; play; school; skin; teeth; things; time; water; way; work cache: 18559.txt plain text: 18559.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 19594 author: Hague, W. Grant (William Grant) title: The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 1 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies date: None words: 55384 flesch: 65 summary: The Roman numerals I, II, III and IV indicate the volume; the Arabic figures 1, 2, 3, etc., indicate the page number. Accidents and emergencies, IV, 629. keywords: baby; bed; birth; care; cause; child; children; conditions; confinement; day; diet; diseases; education; environment; eugenics; fit; function; good; health; iii; labor; life; marriage; medical; milk; mother; need; nurse; patient; physician; place; pregnancy; race; state; system; time; treatment; water; way; woman; womb; work cache: 19594.txt plain text: 19594.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 20817 author: Sadler, Lena K. (Lena Kellogg) title: The Mother and Her Child date: None words: 149992 flesch: 69 summary: Only rigid isolation can possibly prevent other children from getting it--essentials are separate towels, wash towels, soap (in the case of the older children), and, in the case of the baby, separate diapers and rigid scrubbing of the attendant's hands--in this way only can this infection be held in check. TRUSTING YOUR CHILD Often the question arises: Will they tell to other children this newly found knowledge? keywords: + =; = +; = =; acid; age; air; attention; babe; babies; baby; bath; bed; birth; blood; body; bottle; bowels; breast; care; case; chapter; child; children; clean; cold; condition; cotton; cry; daily; day; days; disease; doctor; face; family; feeding; feet; fever; following; food; fresh; good; half; hands; head; heat; home; hours; ice; inches; labor; life; method; milk; mind; minutes; months; morning; mother; mouth; night; nurse; nursing; oil; ounces; pain; patient; physician; place; pregnancy; pressure; room; second; skin; sleep; soap; sugar; teeth; temperature; throat; time; treatment; urine; use; warm; water; way; week; weight; woman; work; years; | | cache: 20817.txt plain text: 20817.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 21418 author: Hague, W. Grant (William Grant) title: The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies date: None words: 55848 flesch: 71 summary: Another important element involved in a speedy diagnosis is, that we must not take any chances of infecting other children. Every case of tonsilitis should be quarantined when there are other children in the house. keywords: acute; air; attack; bath; bed; blood; cases; cause; child; children; cold; condition; cough; cure; day; days; disease; ear; fever; good; head; health; hours; milk; mother; mouth; nose; oil; patient; physician; room; sick; skin; solution; throat; time; treatment; water; way cache: 21418.txt plain text: 21418.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 29701 author: West, Charles title: The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases date: None words: 86877 flesch: 54 summary: Cases in which this condition of the lungs exists usually present the history of the child from the very first having failed to utter a strong and loud cry like that of other children. It is difficult to carry out these minute precautions on which so much depends in the home with other children of the same family. keywords: age; air; attack; body; bowels; brain; breathing; cases; cause; child; childhood; children; cold; condition; cough; course; days; disease; doctor; fever; food; form; general; head; health; hours; infancy; infant; inflammation; life; means; milk; mother; pain; parents; place; power; skin; state; stomach; symptoms; time; water; years cache: 29701.txt plain text: 29701.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 44295 author: Fantus, Bernard title: Candy Medication date: None words: 14402 flesch: 70 summary: The simplest and yet practical form of tablet machine known to the author is the No. 25 machine of Whitall-Tatum Company of Philadelphia (Fig. 1). [Illustration: Fig. 1 A simple yet practical form of tablet machine.] keywords: cacao; compress; die; fat; inch; machine; mix; punches; sugar; tablet machine; tablets cache: 44295.txt plain text: 44295.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 6595 author: Chavasse, Pye Henry title: Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children date: None words: 117663 flesch: 73 summary: Although I do not approve of _cold_ water, we ought not to run into an opposite extreme, as _hot_ water would weaken and enervate the babe, and thus would predispose him to disease. _Young_ children, as a rule, are allowed to eat too much meat. keywords: air; babe; bath; bed; body; bowels; care; case; child; children; cold; course; day; days; delicate; diet; disease; exercise; fever; flannel; food; footnote; fresh; giving; good; great; half; head; health; hot; hours; infant; inflammation; let; life; little; lungs; man; means; medical; medicine; milk; morning; mother; night; nurse; oil; open; patient; pox; remedy; room; scarlet; skin; sleep; stomach; sugar; symptoms; tea; teeth; time; treatment; warm; water; way; wine cache: 6595.txt plain text: 6595.txt